Entertainment tycoon who started out as a director

The train of time slowly moves into late February.

Gu Ming, Li Lianjie and others were already sitting in Oscar's courtesy car.

At this moment, Li Lianjie looked extremely tired, but his eyes were full of brilliance. "My film doesn't have many chances to participate in the Oscars!"

"Although I didn't get an Oscar nomination for Best Actor."

"Race will also be taken into consideration." Gu Ming said, "There haven't been many Best Actor and Best Actress winners before. Your performance in the film is very good, so there will be opportunities in the future."

"No!" Li Lianjie shook his head, "There's no chance."

"All the movies Hollywood offers me are action movies with lots of fighting and fighting, and it's hard to find a male lead who's qualified to win an Oscar for Best Actor."

"Besides, even if there is such a film, I am afraid I can't act in it."

Li Lianjie pointed to his eye sockets and said, "Don't you see anything?"

"I haven't seen you for half a year, and it seems that you look much more tired." Gu Ming guessed something but hadn't asked until now. Now he continued speaking according to the other party's words.

“Hyperthyroidism.”

"It was found out five months ago."

Li Lianjie smiled bitterly and pointed at his heart. "I won't be able to make action movies anymore. My heart rate is just like I just finished exercising. If I do strenuous exercise, you might see my obituary in a few days."

"How could this happen?" Gu Ming's face showed an expression of disbelief.

Of course, expressions are one thing, but what one thinks in one’s heart is exactly the opposite.

If I remember correctly, Li Lianjie in his previous life was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism in 10. It might be because of my own actions that made him feel better, and he didn't have to shoot so many difficult fighting moves later, the disease still appeared, but it was four years later.

"In fact, I could have imagined that this day would come."

Li Lianjie shook his head. "In our line of work, we use our bodies to make a living. It's too easy to get hurt."

"These injuries are not obvious when you are young and strong, but once you get older, they all start to show up."

“I just didn’t expect that I would get this disease.”

"But it's okay." Li Lianjie smiled. "I've received enough. It's a good choice to start taking care of my old age. People will eventually get old."

"Yeah!" Gu Ming sighed, "Actually, I also feel like I'm old."

"Director Gu, you're going a bit too far!" Li Lianjie glanced at Gu Ming, "You're only 36 years old, and you're still a director. In this industry, you're definitely still a youngster."

“When I was thirty-six, I hadn’t made your Taken yet.”

"I just want to enjoy life." Gu Mingwei sighed.

Maybe this is what it means to be lonely at the top.

"Let's not talk about this topic." Li Lianjie shook his head. "If people knew that I talked you into retirement, the audience who couldn't watch a good movie would not let me go!"

"Hahaha..." Gu Ming smiled and stopped talking.

……

The courtesy car drove all the way to the red carpet, and Gu Ming once again walked onto the Oscars red carpet.

To be honest, Gu Ming has walked the red carpet countless times.

Not counting the red carpets of the three major ones, there are probably almost two handfuls of those for the Oscars alone.

Although he was pursuing awards, they were not that big of a thing. Gu Ming left in a very comfortable manner, just like going home.

When the reporters saw Gu Ming, they treated him like a family member and asked him all kinds of questions enthusiastically.

"Gu, are you confident that you can win another Best Director or Best Picture award?"

"Gu, I wish you can win all the big prizes."

"Gu, smile..."

Listening to the noisy sounds around him and the flash lights appearing in his sight from time to time, Gu Ming walked along the red carpet which was who knows how long, entered the theater, sat down in his seat, and then set his sights on the stage.

At the beginning, it is always the host's time to talk.

To warm up the audience, we'll introduce to you some of the favorites for this year's Oscars. Once the atmosphere is created, the awards ceremony will officially begin.

This time, "Interstellar" received eight nominations, but that's not a lot.

So Gu Ming's mind was in a semi-empty state, and only when he heard about the award for "Interstellar" did he pay a little attention. What a pity.

The Oscar judges seemed to be at odds with Gu Ming.

After six consecutive nominations, "Interstellar" won the Best Visual Effects Award.

Until the last four awards were left, out of politeness, Gu Ming gathered all his scattered thoughts and carefully watched who would win the last four awards.

"The winner of the 87th Academy Awards for Best Actress is Julianne Moore from Still Alice."

An actress in her fifties walked up.

The reason why he used an actress was because Gu Ming felt she was worthy.

This is considered a legend among actresses.

Last year, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the second actress after Juliette Binoche to win all three major European Best Actress awards.

This year, she actually won the Oscar for Best Actress again, surpassing her opponent and becoming the number one!

The first actress to win all four Best Actress awards.

Like Jack Lemmon, Sean Penn and Gu Ming, he has achieved the Grand Slam of these four awards in his industry.

Therefore, Gu Ming's clapping was a little louder.

After that, the Best Actor award was given to Eddie Redmayne in "The Theory of Everything", in which he played Hawking.

After he finished his speech and walked down, Gu Ming couldn't help but take a deep breath and straightened his back.

I will win the next two awards.

“Nominees for Best Director are.”

“Richard Linklater in Boyhood.”

“Wes Anderson in The Grand Budapest Hotel.”

"Gu from Interstellar."

"Bennett Miller, director of Foxcatcher."

“Morten Tyldum in The Imitation Game.”

"Finally, let's see who is the big winner tonight!"

"Oh oh oh!"

"This is his second Best Director trophy."

"Congratulations to him, Gu!"

"Haha!" Gu Ming stood up suddenly.

Before, there were always some haters complaining that their awards were not as good as Li An’s. Li An also won four and three awards. Although it was not a Grand Slam, he still had two Oscars.

Now, those little black guys can shut up.

Hugging the people around him and sharing the joy, Gu Minglong walked up to the stage with great strides, took the trophy from the guest's hands, faced everyone and the camera, and smiled unrestrainedly.

"I really didn't expect that I would win this trophy. After all, it's a science fiction film, and it's only been a few years since I won the Best Director award."

"But now that it's in my hands, I will treasure it."

After saying these words, Gu Ming began to say thank you for this and thank you for that, which was almost necessary.

However, Gu Ming's gratitude this time was quite broad.

After thanking the crew members, he added, "Thank you to everyone who has been with me along the way."

"in addition."

Gu Ming had already found James Cameron, the guest who was seated, and raised the trophy to him.

"Seventeen years ago, Director Cameron said here that I am the king of the world."

“I want to say, maybe, me too!”

(End of the book) (End of this chapter)